There will be no change in the dates of Haryana assembly elections. Sources have given this information quoting the Election Commission. Now as per the pre-determined schedule, voting will be held on October 1 and counting of votes will be done on October 4. Indian National Lok Dal and the state’s ruling BJP had written a letter to the commission to change the date of the election. Both the parties had requested the commission to extend the date of voting citing holidays.
Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) Principal General Secretary Abhay Singh Chautala had written a letter to the Chief Election Commissioner on Saturday demanding the postponement of the polling date on October 1. He had written to the Election Commissioner, drawing his attention to the fact that there are two gazetted holidays before the polling day, i.e. 28 September is Saturday and 29 September is Sunday. 1 October is also a polling holiday and after that there will be two gazetted holidays. i.e. Mahatma Gandhi Jayanti is on 2 October and Maharaja Agrasen Jayanti is on 3 October.
He further wrote that since people usually go on holidays on long weekends, it will definitely affect the voting. The voting percentage will be adversely affected and the voting percentage is likely to decrease by 15 to 20 percent. Apart from this, the training of election staff as well as the preparation for the election will also be adversely affected.
